{"id":10782,"date":"2017-12-30T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T22:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=10782"},"modified":"2017-12-30T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:37:52","slug":"abec-takes-registration-back-to-villages-as-talk-of-early-election-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/abec-takes-registration-back-to-villages-as-talk-of-early-election-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"ABEC takes registration back to villages as talk of early election intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two high ranking members of the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) have told Antigua News Room that elections will be called by early March 2018.<\/p>

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The two senior opposition politicians\u00a0did not want to be named because they did not have the authority to speak publicly on the party’s strategic thinking.<\/p>\n

The individuals both indicated that there will be no budget following the Speech from the Throne. The UPP also anticipates that a salary increase for public servants will be announced in 2018 just as major infrastructural\u00a0projects get underway.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has been hinting at a snap election saying it will come “as a thief in the night.”<\/p>

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The Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC) announced that three more Units have been decentralised and are now operational from their respective locations in the constituencies.<\/p>\n

Political observers view this as another indication that elections are imminent.<\/p>

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This week, the All Saints East and St Luke Unit was relocated to the Nelson\u2019s House which is on the compound with the All Saints Police Station.<\/p>\n

The St John\u2019s Rural North Unit is now functioning from the York\u2019s Community Centre while the St Phillip\u2019s North Unit is located in Willikies on the main road in a green wooden building, identifiable with the ABEC logo.<\/p>

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The Electoral Commission said work is ongoing to complete the decentralisation process early in the New Year.<\/p>

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Following the 2014 general election, ABEC began registering voters at the old Peace Corps building but the opposition challenged that saying it goes against the country’s electoral laws.<\/p>\n

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Two high ranking members of the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) have told Antigua News Room that elections will be called by early March 2018. The two senior opposition politicians\u00a0did not want to be named because they did not have the authority to speak publicly on the party’s strategic thinking. 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